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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 478

public diplomacy

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar makes a video statement on December 2, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 29, 2024, 1:48 pm
Foreign Ministry to receive massive budget for public diplomacy abroad
Foreign Minister Sa’ar does not detail what money will be used for, but the hefty funding was part of deal for his joining Netanyahu government
By JTA and ToI Staff
File: Then-director of the Information Center Ministry of Culture and Sport Moshik Aviv speaks during a press conference ahead of Israel's 75th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 24, 2024, 2:22 am
Public Diplomacy Directorate said crumbling after departure of chief and most staff
Ex-staffer says many hired after Oct. 7 have left due to work conditions, delays in pay; PM’s wife reportedly intervening in selection process to ensure loyalist tapped for job
By ToI Staff
Eylon Levy speaks at a rally urging the return of Hamas-held hostages from Gaza, in London's Trafalgar Square, January 14, 2024. (Omri Dagan)
March 31, 2024, 11:54 am
The stunning rise, curious suspension and insistent return of Israel’s star spokesman
As Israel has struggled to make its case to the world since Oct. 7, Eylon Levy was a rare compelling English-speaking voice. So why was he pushed aside, and what is he doing about it?
By David Horovitz
Nisan Zeevi, far right, with other Lobby 1701 members at a ceremony to commemorate the battle of Tel Hai in 1920 on March 21, 2024. (Courtesy)
March 27, 2024, 5:30 pm
Civilians in Israel’s north lobby world leaders to make Hezbollah keep UN truce lines
Terror group refuses to withdraw forces as agreed in 2006’s UN Resolution 1701, making southern Lebanon a stronghold; Lobby 1701 works to prevent a repeat of the Oct. 7 massacre
By Diana Bletter
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet with the troops who participated in a hostage rescue operation in Gaza, February 12, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
February 21, 2024, 4:56 pm
In an Israel desperate for unity, Netanyahu keeps capitulating to the far-right, Haredim
Ben Gvir’s pyromaniacal Temple Mount demands * Why the ultra-Orthodox must share the burden * The IDF’s Rafah preparations * Public diplomacy lessons unlearned
By David Horovitz
Israel advocate Jonathan Elkhoury during a public talk at the Jewish Community Center in Marblehead, Massachusetts, USA, on November 5, 2023 (photo by Harel Madhala, courtesy)
November 28, 2023, 1:29 am
Lebanese Israeli advocate on US colleges post-Oct. 7: ‘Many don’t see Israelis as humans’
Embodying the mosaic of Israeli society, Jonathan Elkhoury, an Israeli of Christian Lebanese origin, is on the front line of the Jewish state’s public diplomacy
By Gianluca Pacchiani
Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll gives a webinar on effective hasbara, or public diplomacy, to activists following the end of Operation Breaking Dawn, August 8, 2022. (Courtesy Office of Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll)
August 9, 2022, 10:17 am
‘Public diplomacy gives us time, legitimacy’ in army ops, deputy FM tells activists
Foreign Ministry holds webinar for ‘hasbara’ activists, says it is focusing on getting information out on social media to apply pressure on conventional media
By Jeremy Sharon
Pro-Palestinian supporters demonstrate in New York's Times Square, May 20, 2021, amid the Hamas-Israel conflict. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
July 15, 2021, 12:25 pm
Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore
Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing
By David Horovitz
Host John Oliver castigates Israel in a "Last Week Tonight" segment, May 16, 2021. On screen is what he called a 'triumphant meme' in which an IDF Instagram post showed 'before and after' images of a Gaza City tower where foreign media had offices and where the IDF says Hamas had military assets. (Screenshot)
May 18, 2021, 1:19 pm
‘In world’s view, Palestinians are the weaker side’: Inside Israel’s PR war
The Foreign Ministry is overseeing a newly coordinated ‘hasbara’ effort and believes it is proving its worth, but it’s an uphill battle in the court of global public opinion
By Lazar Berman
Palestinians wave their national flag as they demonstrate near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Jabaliya, on May 14, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMMED ABED)
May 23, 2018, 12:44 pm
Israel lost the PR battle over Gaza. Was it unwinnable or just mismanaged?
The IDF spokesperson is taking heavy flak for his handling of last week’s border clashes; some say he’s a scapegoat
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative image of Palestinian protesters evacuating a wounded youth during clashes with Israeli troops along the Gaza Strip border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, March 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
April 2, 2018, 4:37 pm
Foreign Ministry says it handled Gaza well. Michael Oren begs to differ
Spokesman says ministry took a calculated decision not to fan the flames of an event that wasn’t greatly resonating. Deputy minister for diplomacy leads a despairing counter-chorus
By Raphael Ahren
Civilians inspect the site of a bomb attack near restaurants and coffee shops filled with customers in central Baghdad's busy commercial Karradah neighborhood, Iraq, Sunday, May 3, 2015 (AP/Hadi Mizban)
January 17, 2018, 6:29 pm
In rare gesture, Jerusalem expresses sympathy for Iraqi terror victims
In post to Foreign Ministry’s Arabic Facebook page, Israel hopes for the ‘establishment of normal relations’ with Baghdad
By Raphael Ahren
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan attends an Internal Affairs committee meeting in the Knesset, October 31, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 6, 2018, 10:09 pm
Israel compiles blacklist of BDS groups to be barred from country
Document created by Strategic Affairs Ministry covers around 20 groups said to consistently and openly work to delegitimize Israel
By ToI Staff
Palestinian activists hold posters during a demonstration calling for a boycott of Israeli products in the West Bank city of Nablus, file (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
December 29, 2017, 5:05 pm
Israel okays $72 million anti-BDS project
Funded by government and Jewish donations, new organization will oversee fight against boycott attempts through public diplomacy
By JTA
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